Purpose
In the current era of information age, medical education and training has undergone a rapid shift in the style and structure. Radiology training, due to itsnature of complete digitization of information is in the forefront of this shift. This change offers unique opportunity to educate radiologists as well as clinicians in a practical way to enhance their practice. In this work, we propose to study if it possible to impart capsule training to general radiologists and clinicians to improve their interpretation skills in specific pathologies...
Methods and materials
Seventy-two cases of MRI of the shoulder (Axial, Coronal & Sagittal FSPD, Sagittal T1) with diagnosis of glenoid labral tear on clinical report were extracted from PACS, anonymised and randomised. A sub-specialist musculoskeletal radiologist independently read the scans to establish ground truth for the comparative study. A shoulder surgeon and a general radiologist, each with 12 years’ experience in their respective fields were given a capsule course of training on imaging findings of glenoid labral tears with cases including all common variants. The training cases...
Results
Out of the 72 cases, 5 cases had 270º tears, 24 cases had anteroinferior glenoid labral tears,14 had posteroinferior tears, 25 had posterosuperior tears and two had anterosuperior tears. The percentage observed agreement for SLAP (posterosuperior) and Bankart’s lesion (anteroinferior) was 58% and 72% for the radiologist and 46% and 58% for the orthopaedic surgeon. The percentage agreement for anterosuperior and posteroinferior labrum was similar for the radiologist (61% and 69%) and the orthopaedic surgeon (60% and 69%).
Conclusion
Surprisingly, the general radiologist performed better than the sub-specialist orthopaedic surgeon paving the way for training programs in MRI reading for orthopaedic surgeons. Note that our sample size of readers was very small, and the study should be replicated with a larger number of readers. Many orthopaedic surgeons, especially in the developing world, where there is a paucity of radiologists, choose to read their scans themselves. We demonstrate that as far as possible an opinion from a radiologist should be obtained.
Personal information and conflict of interest
S. Rajan; New Delhi/IN - nothing to disclose R. S. Rajan; New Delhi/IN - nothing to disclose R. K. Aggarwal; New Delhi/IN - nothing to disclose V. K. Venugopal; New Delhi, DELHI/IN - nothing to disclose V. Mahajan; New Delhi/IN - nothing to disclose H. Mahajan; New Delhi/IN - nothing to disclose
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